Electronic piracy affects an auction, the proceeds of which are returned to Ukraine

Banksy graffiti on the wall of a war-damaged building in Gostomil, near Kyiv.

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An online auction of Banksy's works to raise funds for civilians in Ukraine has been subjected to a cyberattack from its associated IP address devices in Russia, organizers have confirmed.

Last month, the Legacy World Foundation organized an auction of 50 works made with silk-screen printing technology bearing the signature of the British artist, at a price of 5 thousand pounds ($ 6065) per piece, each of which represents the shape of a white mouse planting its claws in a box with the words "fragile materials". ".

Those wishing to acquire these numbered and certified pieces were allowed to have one work per person.

The site received more than a million requests (and 3,500 cyberattacks from devices with IP addresses in Russia), according to what the Foundation announced on its website.

Banksy had indicated on Instagram that the proceeds from the sales "will be transferred to our friends in Ukraine."

The money raised from the auction will be used to purchase ambulances, generators, heaters, and solar lamps for residents deprived of electricity, as well as to help women's shelters, according to the foundation.

Banksy had posted on his Instagram account in mid-November a video clip collecting works he drew with a painter in Ukraine, some of which represent a person wearing a gas mask in Gostomel, thus confirming that he is the owner of these works.

The British artist has been in contact in Ukraine with the Legacy World Foundation, meeting representatives to offer "products for care, heating and water, as well as a smiling face for people living in despair inside a bombed-out building".

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